Thistle and Prevate Edge

Anonymous-0

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Hi, I have a problem with thistle in my pastures and with prevate hedge in my fences. What do you folks recommend for a permanent kill for each one? What tank mix do you use for each one? What is best time of year to apply for best results?

Thanks for any and all recommendations.
 
Canadian thistle I am guessing?

I hear good things about Milestone. Or Stinger - there are other products that contain the same ingredient as Stinger, generics.

If it is Canadian thistle, it is best to hit it in the fall, after it would normally have blossomed. In the spring and summer these plants send their sap up to the seed head to feed it. Spraying them then only burns off the green above ground, does very little to the big root mass.

If you spray them in fall that is when they are running sap down into the root and will carry the spray down to kill much more of the whole plant.

Canadian thistle is one of the few plants its better to spray in fall close to freeze time.

I don't know what your other weed is.

Paul
 
I spot spray thistles with Forefront. You can spray in one day as it burns them down within a couple of hours and then you can go back and hit the ones you missed.
 
Fall is by far the best time to spray thistles. Only problem is they are hard to find in the fall unless you've got a "patch" of them. Broadcast spraying of the entire area is usually required. 2-4-d works well in the fall and is economical. I"ve never heard of your other weed. Is it a woody plant?

I sprayed 24d last year in December trying to control poison hemlock and thistles.......worked really well come spring. It takes what seems like forever for them to die though. ABout a month after I sprayed, I thought I"d totally wasted my time. When spring rolled around, I got almost a 100% kill.
 
Yes the prevate hedge is considered a woody plant I suppose. Birds eat the seed and while they are sitting on the fence wire they plant the seed.
 
We use a pre-mix of Picloram (Banvel, I think is the brand name) and 2,4-d, (also known as Grazon or Hired Hand P+D) on thistles. I was able to hit some musk and plumeless thistle florettes with my eLBOW mix this fall (Little Bit Of Everything)- see what happens come spring. That was on a recently acquired pasture where the previous owner's control plan seemed to be "the neighbor's can't see it so it must not exist".

I've got a couple patches of Canadian thistle knocked down quite well but it takes a lot of time (and spray) to be sure you've got every flippin plant, and that's not easy in tall grass.

I'd like to get a cheap hand-held GPS to mark the Canadian thistle patches and the real bad Musk/plumeless thistle patches to make sure they get hit again the next time we ride the pasture.
 

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